Privacy

Last updated October 22, 2026.

Yuletide Markets is a set of static pages. It has no accounts, no newsletter, no ads and no advertising or tracking scripts, and it sets no cookies of its own. Some market pages include a hotel map from our booking partner Stay22 (below). The only thing you can send us is a suggestion (a market, light display or tree farm) or a correction, and only if you choose to (below). It also offers a read-only connector for AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude, which keeps only daily usage totals (below).

Visit counts

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits and to see which pages are used and how fast they load. Cloudflare says its Web Analytics does not use any client-side state, such as cookies or localStorage, to collect usage metrics, and that it does not fingerprint individuals via their IP address, User Agent string or any other data for the purpose of displaying analytics. It records page views, the site that referred you, your country, browser, operating system and device type, and page load performance. Cloudflare processes this under its privacy policy.

Suggestions and corrections

The suggest a listing or report a change page, linked from every market, light display and tree farm page, lets you send us a message. When you press send, we store only:

• the type you picked (a change or something wrong, a market, light display or tree farm we are missing, or something else), the name you typed, the city and state, the link to an official source if you add one, and your message;
• the page you sent it from (for example /market/some-market/) and the date and time;
• your email address, only if you type one in and tick the box saying we may use it. It is optional and the box starts unticked. We use it only to tell you when your change is done. We delete it right after that, or 90 days after you sent it, whichever comes first. No newsletter, never sold or shared;
• a scrambled code made from your IP address (a salted SHA-256 hash, not the address itself), used only to stop one sender from flooding the form. It is kept apart from your message and deleted after 24 hours.

Why: so we can check the change on the organizer's or farm's official website and fix the listing. We never change a listing on a message alone.

We delete the message itself 12 months after you send it. These records are stored in a Cloudflare D1 database (Cloudflare is our web host) and processed under Cloudflare's privacy policy. There is no CAPTCHA and no third-party spam service: a hidden field that only bots fill in and the rate limit do that job. Please leave names, addresses and phone numbers of people out of your message.

To sort messages we use a small AI model, run through OpenRouter, to label them by type (change, new listing and so on). Only the message, the name, city, link and the page it came from are sent for that; never your email or the IP code.

To have a message (and any email you left) deleted sooner, send another message through the same form with the type "Something else", saying roughly when you sent the first one and what it was about. We delete both. We can't look a message up by your name, because we don't ask for it.

Our web host

Our web host, Cloudflare, processes standard request data (such as IP address, browser type and the page requested) to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse, under Cloudflare's own privacy policy. We do not use those details to track you. The only exception is the scrambled IP code described under suggestions, which exists only while it guards the form and is deleted after 24 hours.

The "Open this weekend" lists are worked out in your browser from dates already on the page. The filters on the light display and tree farm pages (drive-through, free, tree type and so on) also run in your browser; the boxes you tick are added to the page address so a filtered list can be shared, and nothing is saved. Nothing about your visit is sent anywhere to do either.

AI assistant tools

Yuletide Markets offers Christmas markets, light displays and tree farms near a place, with official dates and source links, to AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude, through a connector at https://yuletidemarkets.com/mcp. When an assistant uses it, the assistant's servers send us a place (a city, state or ZIP code) and, if you give them, a date range, a search radius and the kind of listing (markets, light displays or tree farms). We use those details only to answer that one request. We don't store them, log them, or link them to you.

What we keep: daily totals only. For each day we count how many times each tool was used, which kind of assistant app it came from (ChatGPT, Claude or other), whether it worked, a rough count of results (none, one, two or three, or four or five), and how many visits came to our site from links in the answers (those links end in ?ref=agent and the tool's name). We also keep a few housekeeping totals per day: how many requests our limits turned away, how often an out-of-date figure was held back, and how often a few particular answers were served (to spot copying). The totals contain no questions, names, IP addresses or browser details, so they can't be traced to a person. We keep the daily totals for as long as the site runs. If the site is ever sold, they pass to the new owner.

How we count visits from those links: when you open a page of this site from such a link, a few lines of script on the page tell our own server which tool's link it was, and the daily total for that tool goes up by one. Nothing else is sent and nothing is stored about you. Pages opened any other way send nothing.

Who else handles it: our host, Cloudflare, runs the connector and processes each request to deliver it. To stop abuse, Cloudflare's rate limiter counts requests per IP address for about a minute; we don't store that count. Cloudflare's request logging feature (Workers Logs) is turned off for this site, so no per-request log of connector calls is kept through it. The assistant app you use (for example ChatGPT or Claude) has its own privacy policy for what you type into it. We don't sell or share anything from these requests, and the tools show no ads.

Extra details an assistant may attach: an assistant can attach technical hints to each tool call, such as your language setting, an app version hint and a coarse location. The tool does not use or keep any of these (it reads only the app's name, to count ChatGPT, Claude or other).

Your choices: there are no accounts, and nothing we keep can be linked to you, so there is nothing to look up or delete. You can stop using the connector at any time in your assistant's settings. Questions: support@yuletidemarkets.com.

Hotel maps from Stay22

Market pages for markets people often travel to show a hotel map from our booking partner Stay22. The map is an embedded frame served by Stay22, and your browser loads it only when you scroll near it. When it loads, your browser connects to Stay22, which receives the usual request data (such as your IP address, browser type and the page you are on) and may set its own cookies. The map is told the market's address or rough location, a check-in and check-out date, and a tag naming the market page (so bookings can be credited to it). Stay22 sends us booking and commission reports for our account; we get nothing else about you from it. If you book through the map, the booking site you choose handles your details under its own policy. Stay22 handles map data under its privacy policy. We never load Stay22's site-wide script, and the map has no pop-ups.

Site search

Search runs in your browser. The first time you use it, your browser downloads our list of markets, light displays, tree farms and pages, and matches what you type against that list on your own device. What you type is not sent to us or to anyone else, and nothing is saved, not even a list of recent searches. If you open or share a search link (an address like /search/?q=chicago), the words are part of that page address, so they reach our web host as part of a normal page request, like any other link.

Links to market and light display organizers, tree farms and other sites take you to their pages, which have their own privacy policies.

If we add other analytics, ads or affiliate links beyond the Stay22 map above, or keep anything more from the AI assistant tools than the daily totals above, we will update this page before they go live and describe what they collect.